they don;t have the kind of resources that MS has either though.. On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > > On 19 Oct 2002, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > > >>I cannot say I am happy about that. > >> > >>The Cyrix 686 (who reached 200 Megahertz in P-rating) is certainly more > >>powerful than a P75. But it will NOT work with a kernel compiled for > >>Pentium. > > > > You must be as high as me, in order to ride Psyche > > ^ Pentium > > | > > | > > | ^Cyrix 6x86 > > | | > > | | > > | | > > ------------------------------ > > > > > >>The AMD K6 will work with a Pentium kernel but there are fair chances > >>for it being slower with a Pentium kernel than with a 386 one (it will > >>be slower on the C parts). > > > > Compile your own (unsupported) kernel then. We haven't supported > > Anything lower than Pentium for over a year and a half. Anything > > lower than Pentium that worked, worked by coincidence, and not > > because it was officially supported. > > > > Time to upgrade your hardware, stay at an older release of the > > distro, recompile your own kernel, or possibly even switch to a > > distro that offers support out of the box for ancient hardware. > > > > And yes, I have several boxes which are less than the lowest > > system requirements. It's trivial to make the distro run on > > unsupported hardware, it just takes a bit of ingenuity. And.... > > it is unsupported. But I don't mind. ;o) > > > > -- > > Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > > Well - having thought about it a bit more ... > > Removing one 12Mb RPM is quite rediculous when almost EVERY other > intel RPM is built for an i386. Even glibc has an i386 version. > If you say that you no longer support i386 - then build all the > RPM's to i586 and be done with it. If every RPM was at least i586 > then all intel machines would run a ilttle bit faster. > The argument has been stated before that the majority of performance > gain is in using the kernel and glibc that matches your processor - > and that all the rest is more effort than worth the gain. > However, if they all were already i586 then the effort would be zero > to anyone installing to have all to be at least i586 > > Secondly, there is no such thing as a height measurement that puts > the lowest pentium above the highest Cyrix 6x86. > > I can think of a lot of reasons why the i386 kernel was not there - > but maybe one would be that general RedHat support for older hardware > is not as good as MS (RedHat seems to sometimes drop support for old > hardware that was supported in the previous release) > Yet - RedHat's only true market is support (as stated on the web page > about trademarks) - interesting :-) > > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
